Bartl Gensbichler
Bartl Gensbichler 
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| birthday | 9th September 1956 (age 63) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Hinterglemm , Austria | ||||||||||||
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Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| society | SC Saalbach-Hinterglemm | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 1979 | ||||||||||||
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Bartl Gensbichler (born September 9, 1956 in Hinterglemm ) is a former Austrian ski racer . In 1974 he became Junior European Downhill Champion , won a World Cup race and three European Cup races .
biography
Gensbichler celebrated his first major successes at the 1974 European Junior Championships in Jasná, Czechoslovakia . He won the downhill and was second in both slalom and giant slalom. In the same winter he also scored his first points in the European Cup , and a year later he made it onto the podium for the first time in the Sauze d'Oulx slalom .
Gensbichler celebrated his first European Cup victory in the 1975/76 season in slalom from home . With another two podium places, he came seventh overall and third place in the downhill classification. In the World Cup , he scored his first points on January 25, 1976 with eighth place in the combination of Kitzbühel . In the same winter he was also Austrian runner-up in slalom. In the next few years, the Salzburg man was particularly successful in the downhill.
In the winter of 1976/77 Gensbichler won the second European Cup downhill run from Laax after he had already taken second place in the first. He came in second behind Günther Alster in the downhill classification. In the World Cup in the 1976/77 season in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in the first downhill at the season finale in Heavenly Valley , the Salzburg man finished ninth. He was able to win the second run in the Californian ski area very surprisingly.
In the following World Cup season, Gensbichler could not repeat this success. A fifth place in Cortina d'Ampezzo and a sixth place in Laax were his best results. He was more successful in the European Cup, where he took first and second place in both downhill runs from Haus.
In the winter of 1978/79 Gensbichler suffered a serious knee injury, which is why he finally had to end his career. After his active time, he took over the ski and snowboard school in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, which he still runs today. Since 1983 he has been musically successful with the group "Bartl Gensbichler und seine Skilehrermusi". In 2011 Gensbichler was elected President of the Salzburg State Ski Association.
successes
World cup
- One victory (departure in Heavenly Valley on March 13, 1977), another five times in the top ten
European Cup
- 1975/76 season : 7th overall ranking, 3rd downhill
- 1976/77 season : 2nd descent
- 1977/78 season : 6th descent
- Three wins, three times second, twice third
Junior European Championships
- Jasná 1974 : 1st descent, 2nd slalom, 2nd giant slalom
literature
- Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 95-96.
Web links
- Bartl Gensbichler in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Bartl Gensbichler in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bartl Gensbichler is the new president of the SLSV. Kronen-Zeitung, June 10, 2011, accessed October 14, 2011.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gensbichler, Bartl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hinterglemm |